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The Winnicott Tradition: Lines of Development - Evolution of by Margaret Boyle Spelman, Frances Thomson-Salo

By Margaret Boyle Spelman, Frances Thomson-Salo

This volume--in a ebook sequence on psychoanalytic leaders--provides a geographically worldwide sampler of writing stemming from Winnicott’s complicated and paradoxical thinking.

In the 1st part, on his paintings and legacy, his pondering is positioned right into a context to bare anything of the origins, major milestones, modern improvement, and theoretical enlargement of his thinking.

In the second one part, there's a attractiveness of the truth that Winnicott privileged medical paintings. This part goals to demonstrate the evolution of idea, growth of innovations and purposes of Winnicott’s physique of labor to the medical state of affairs with either youngsters and adults in numerous settings which come with deepest perform, the well-being companies and home courses in a different array of settings worldwide.

The 3rd part on functions of Winnicott’s paintings outdoor the consulting room celebrates his specified ability as a bridge-builder and as a determine whose paintings has had a really huge attraction and impression. His paintings keeps to develop in its effect and to an strange measure it informs the paintings of allied pros and people in very many alternative disciplines, domain names of inspiration and paintings sectors to that of the conventional medical ones of overall healthiness and schooling. a number of chapters point out how his creativity encouraged these within the inventive disciplines.

Lastly, the fourth part offers own reflections and bills from these acquainted with Winnicott’s paintings or with the guy himself and offers the reader a chance to adventure the evolution of his pondering and effect during the eyes of participants who've pertinent ancient memories and studies.

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Parodying a popular song, his father would sing to him, as Winnicott recalled, “Rosie said to Donald/I love you/Donald said to Rosie/I don’t believe you do”. In relating the incident, Winnicott added, “Maybe the verses were the other way around, I forget”. Violet remembered the same incident and was certain that Donald, as he suspected, had reversed the verses (Anderson, 1981g). Therefore, their father’s mocking song was, “Donald said to Rosie/I love you/Rosie said to Donald/I don’t believe you do”.

And he really knew that. And they were an established group you see, with whom he could have an influence like he could speak with authority to the obstetricians in the Royal College of Midwives. So, he could speak for them and might be heard, by say, the Home Office. I really then have to take just a short diversion, which I hope won’t distract us at all, and that is to say that one of the reasons of this mistrust that Winnicott provoked was that he wrote about regression. I suppose I could best say from my personal knowledge of hearing this discussed with Anna Freud that most people when he talked about the holding environment, really took it and its comparison with psychoanalysis you see, the phase when somebody regresses, really using three new words here, holding, regression and something else, and Anna Freud certainly thought that when he talked about holding, he meant holding hands or something.

He notes: “Much of my life has been founded on the undoubted fact that I actually did this deed, not merely wished it and planned it”. What I draw from this incident is that it is representative of how he as a child was not allowed, at least by his father, to have his feelings; in this case his father shamed him. Winnicott reacted with aggression. But 22 T H E W I N N I C OT T T R A D I T I O N violence against his father was too dangerous, so he displaced it on to the doll. I assume that Winnicott’s father, and Winnicott too as a little boy, would have seen his aggressive feelings as wrong and unacceptable, especially because he not only had the feelings but also acted them out physically.

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